Topics Include: 1) Reviewing the first four factors of awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, and rapture. 2) Mindfulness, the foundation of the seven factors. 3) Mindfulness as the condition for investigation to arise. 4) Understanding how mindfulness works in terms of working with the energy of afflictive emotions and, at a deeper level, understanding how these emotions arose. 5) Learning to differentiate the difference between skillful, wholesome and unskillful, unwholesome thoughts and actions. 6) Some personal stories of unskillful thoughts and actions.
Honolulu, Hawaii
December 22, 2018
37 minutes